Domain vs. Demesne

By Jaxson

  • Demesne

    In the feudal system, the demesne ( di-MAYN) was all the land which was retained by a lord of the manor for his own use and occupation or support, under his own management, as distinguished from land sub-enfeoffed by him to others as sub-tenants. In England, royal demesne is the land held by the Crown, and ancient demesne is the legal term for the land held by the king at the time of the Domesday Book.

Wikipedia
  • Domain (noun)

    A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.

    “The king ruled his domain harshly.”

  • Domain (noun)

    A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.

    “Dealing with complaints isn’t really my domain: get in touch with customer services.”

    “His domain is English history.”

  • Domain (noun)

    A group of related items, topics, or subjects.

  • Domain (noun)

    The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.

  • Domain (noun)

    The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.

  • Domain (noun)

    A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.

    “integral domain”

  • Domain (noun)

    An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval (0,1) as a subset of the real numbers.

  • Domain (noun)

    Any DNS delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

  • Domain (noun)

    A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.

  • Domain (noun)

    A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain, and the network on which the computers named in the domain reside.

  • Domain (noun)

    The collection of computers identified by a domain’s domain names.

  • Domain (noun)

    A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.

  • Domain (noun)

    Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.

  • Domain (noun)

    A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics, name, and usage.

  • Domain (noun)

    The highest taxa Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryota.

  • Domain (noun)

    A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function.

  • Demesne (noun)

    A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor’s own use.

  • Demesne (noun)

    A region or area; a domain.

Wiktionary
  • Domain (noun)

    an area of territory owned or controlled by a particular ruler or government

    “the French domains of the Plantagenets”

  • Domain (noun)

    a specified sphere of activity or knowledge

    “the country’s isolation in the domain of sport”

  • Domain (noun)

    a distinct subset of the Internet with addresses sharing a common suffix or under the control of a particular organization or individual.

  • Domain (noun)

    a discrete region of magnetism in ferromagnetic material.

  • Domain (noun)

    the set of possible values of the independent variable or variables of a function.

  • Domain (noun)

    a distinct region of a complex molecule or structure.

Oxford Dictionary

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